Muhammad Zeeshan

Born in 1980 in Mirpurkhas (Pakistan)
Livers and works in Karachi (Pakistan)

Muhammad Zeeshan started working from a very young age as a cinema board painter in his hometown of Mirpurkhas in Sindh province. In 2000, he gained admission to the the National College of Arts, Lahore, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor’s degree in Miniature painting. He has exhibited widely both in Pakistan and abroad. His work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among other institutions.

Muhammad Zeeshan writes of his submission for KB17: “It’s the worst fear of all. The seed of acute despair. But for me, ‘Failure’ has always been a great vision. It has allowed me to grow and gain motivation to resolve the challenge of the unfinished, the unsolved, the mysterious. This project is based on a selection of rejection letters sent to me by various organizations.”